Top News

Live from Google I/O 2012, day one — “We still have some surprises left.” 9:38:37 AM PDT “This is our fifth year. This is going to be incredibly special.” 9:38:27 AM PDT “Welcome to IO.” Big applause. 9:38:20 AM PDT “And let me welcome the 1m people watching this live on YouTube.”

Apple Wins Injunction Against Samsung's Galaxy Tab — Apple has scored a major victory in its pitched patent battle with Samsung. — U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh late Tuesday issued a preliminary injunction preventing Samsung from selling its Galaxy Tab 10.1 in the United States.

How Apple won a ban on Samsung's Galaxy Tab 10.1 — A zig-zag path to victory in a landmark patent infringement case — FORTUNE — On Tuesday, a U.S. district court granted Apple's (AAPL) request for a preliminary injunction against Samsung's Galaxy Tab 10.1 — the tablet computer that most closely resembles Apple's iPad.

T-Mobile USA's CEO Philipp Humm Suddenly Resigns — Philipp Humm, the CEO of T-Mobile USA, has suddenly resigned, according to the company. — Jim Alling, T-Mobile's COO will take over his duties while a search is underway. — In a statement, the company said that Humm is going to pursue …

Facebook Plans to Speed Up its iPhone App — Facebook's iPhone app is slow. Often painfully slow. — On the iTunes app store, out of 38,000 reviews, more than 21,000 customers have given the app a measly single star. Users repeatedly describing the app as: slow, crashes, stinks, fail and “is always loading.”

What Developers Thought About WWDC — A look at what Apple really did last week. — Image by AFP / Getty Images — It's been a couple weeks since the close of the Apple World Wide Developer Conference (depending on who you ask, also known as the World Wide Denny's Conference or World Wide Drinking Competition).

Introducing the Photos app for Windows 8 … We take a lot of photos that end up in a lot of different places. Some are on our PCs, others end up on a photo sharing service like Flickr or Facebook, and even more are on our phones—sometimes indefinitely. How and where we store and share photos …

Waze to Drive Its Social GPS Software Into Cars This Year — Waze's free app for iPhones and Android devices has 19 million users. — Waze, which makes one of the most popular GPS applications for smartphones, is planning to break into a platform it hopes will provide greater fuel for its business: the car.

Sirius XM Radio, Howard Stern coming to Google TV — (Reuters) - Google Inc is getting help from shock jock Howard Stern to revive its Internet TV software, which has languished since its debut 19 months ago. — Satellite radio provider Sirius XM will make all of its programming available on Google TV …

App Retention Increasing; iPhone Crushes Android — In great news for the mobile app market, app retention rates are improving as app publishers shift from an early focus on “downloads” to more mature customer acquisition and retention models. The overall app industry improved retention rates 19% over the last year.

What Happened to Silicon Values? — Compare Mark Zuckerberg and Larry Page to the founders of Hewlett Packard and Intel, and you'll find a paradigm shift as to how the tech industry treats its customers. — The Facebook IPO brought with it a flood of questions about how Silicon Valley has changed over the decades.

HP asks judge to enforce Itanium contract vs. Oracle — (Reuters) - Hewlett-Packard Co told a judge on Tuesday that Oracle Corp should be ordered to make its software available on HP's Itanium-based servers for as long as HP sells them. — Lawyers for HP and Oracle presented closing arguments …

Launching Google +1 Recommendations Across the Web — Working on +1, we often hear people say they want to see more of what their friends recommend. Likewise, when we talk to site owners, they ask us to help them show more relevant content to their users.